Madagascar: Ethies et Ethnicite
En suivant une démarche multidisciplinaire, ce livre, le premier du genre en ce qui concerne Madagascar, rassemble d’importantes réflexions issues de travaux de recherche approfondie sur l’ethnie et l’ethnicité étudiées dans leurs dimensions historique,linguistique, anthropologique et religieux. Les auteurs s’efforcent de dépasser la condamnation convenue et souvent stérile de l’instrumentalisation des identités collectives anciennes par les politiques. La grande majorité des Malgaches naissent, vivent et meurent dans des groupes ethniques qui n’ont pas à leurs yeux qu’une fonction négative. Au vu de cette importance historique et sociale, privilégier la perspective politiste sur ce champ de réflexion serait inapproprié. Plutôt que d’asséner des conclusions définitives, cet ouvrage a pour ambition d’ouvrir le débats sur les identités collectives considérées dans leur expression quotidienne. À ce titre, il constitue une lecture préalable indispensable à l’examen de la construction de l’État-nation malgache.
This book brings together multidisciplinary research on the historical, linguistic, anthropological and religious dimensions of ethnicity in
Slavery, sanskritisation and contemporary history of Madagascar
Taking into account the diversity and fluidity of the groups of dependents within a more global system, the project intends to question the existence, in a context of conflict, of an autonomy
of the memory for the dependent groups. Even though this memory is expressed and passed on verbally, it is no less the source of numerous interrogations.
Does this memory autonomously emerge thanks to the idioms, the standards and the values enrooted in the experiment of labour and social exploitation? What are the transmission
channels of this memory? In this context, what is the status of orality in particular in the conflicts of memory which oppose the present actors in practical problems such as conflicts over lands?
Two groups of slave descents, the Marofotsy (central northern Madagascar) and the Miangorandrana (in the suburb of Toamasina, east coast), which appeared at the beginning
of the nineteenth century under the reign of the King Radama I () will be used as main fields of observation. The project does not aim to reconstitute the history of the dependence
in which however the respective trajectory of the two group
Solofo Randrianja is Full Professor Historical Studies department at the University of Toamasina. He holds a Habilitation and a Ph.D. from the Denis Diderot University of Paris VII.
In at Nashville (Tennessee, USA) he was awarded the International Visitor Award by the African Studies Association (ASA) for his researches. His duties have given him the opportunity to work with several research centres such as Freedom House, Global Integrity and Varieties of democracy.
His research areas of interest are Political history, Slavery stigma in contemporary Madagascar and anticolonial resistance mouvements. He is currently working on local and autochthonous forms of democracy.
Experience
–present
Professor, University of Toamasina
Honours
EU Marie Curie Fellowship, US International Visitor Award, the African Studies Association .
Fellows
Solofo Randrianja is Professor in the Department of History of the University of Toamasina, Madagascar, and Director of research at the Political Studies Institute of Madagascar. He has taught at the University of Chicago and was a fellow at the “Africa Studies Centrum” of Leiden and at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. He is co-editor in chief of the CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) Identity, culture and politics magazine. In at Nashville (Tennessee, USA) he was awarded the International Visitor Award by the African Studies Association (ASA) for his research.
Research interests
Contemporary political history of Madagascar; identities; alternative political cultures; autochthony.
Key Publications
Madagascar, le coup d’Etat de mars , Karthala,
Madagascar, a short history, with S. Ellis, Chicago University Press,
Madagascar et l’Afrique du sud, in D. Nativel and F. Rajaonah (eds), Madagascar et l’Afrique, Karthala,
Madagascar, ethnies et ethnicité, CODESRIA, Dakar,
Luttes anticoloniales et sociétés à Madagascar, , Karthala,
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